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Tech
How the house hero's live approach, tech setup and philosophy led to him becoming one of the most in-demand performers in dance music...
From a DJ addicted to digging, to a stripped-back, captivating live performer, Mr. G's career has had only one constant: quality. His perfectionist approach to...
Alice Clark is a woman on a mission...
Rising star Alice Clark knows her way around Ibiza. She’s lived on the island since she was 17, spending her time in the studio during...
Nothing else matters... but the music
BONTAN BEATS!
Earlier this month when I covered Pete Tong’s legendary Radio 1 show, I had the opportunity to select my ‘Future Star’. I wanted...
Features
Upstart tech like blockchain has been dominating discourse around the music industry's next steps and has become one of the most divisive trends of the past 12 months. Declan McGlynn speaks to Plastician about why he believes it's the future for independent labels, promoters and artists
The new samples and loop library features over 500,000 sounds for producers and musicians...
Native Instruments are today announcing a brand new website and subscription service called Sounds.com. The platform will host samples and loops for users to download...
News
The song was released ahead of Ireland’s official day of celebrating youth creativity, Cruinniú na nÓg
Opinion
Greeted with both derision and delight from the outset, the cartoonish covers and soundtrack of happy hardcore’s defining, and to some damning, Bonkers series were...
“Bonkers, light in the head; slightly drunk. Perhaps from bonk, a blow or punch on the bonce or head.” It's a word whose origins come...
We catch up with the hardest working man in dance to talk his rise to fame, his Revealed Recordings label and his bid for world...
“After I do a gig, if I’m in a party mood, it’s my tour manager’s job to remind me that this is my job,” says 25-year-old megastar DJ Hardwell. “Even though when I DJ and travel it doesn’t feel like a job. It feels like a dream come true.”
The Electro enigma Larry Tee gives us his Take 10
Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Lee started hanging out with drag queens like RuPaul and Lady Bunny in the '80s before a whole gaggle of...
Features
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From crystalline house and propulsive techno to experimental ambient and club-tuned pop here's November 2022's list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of
Mixed up in The Hague
It's impossible to overstate The Hague's impact on dance music. In the early '90s, this small city in northern Holland crafted a bastardised version of the sounds bubbling out of Detroit, a ravey mash of jacking house and techno that, at the time, sounded almost impossibly futuristic.
Skrillex & Boys Noize favoured plug in
Every now and then, a plug-in just slips under the radar. Released last year, Sugar Bytes' Cyclop came recommended by the likes of Skrillex and Boys Noize, to name just a couple of heavyweight users. But those endorsements were likely to deter as many producers as they attracted (and with the same level of conviction), so perhaps it's understandably taken a while for producers in other genres to catch on.
Pioneer drops the bomb with two more new releases, the DDJ-SZ and Remix Station 500
Once upon a time Pioneer DJ only made mixers and CDJ players and for a while it looked as though they were being left behind...
DJ Mag checks out Critical at Tectonic Plates Vol.3 Launch, Fabric London
What a line-up! Not for those of closed minds, faint hearts, disregarding ears! Tonight is most certainly a line-up for the heads. Each and every...
Cover Features
After more than three decades of DJing all over the world, Carl Cox remains one of dance music’s most beloved figures. With a new album on the way, and a fresh emphasis on live performance, Bruce Tantum speaks with the king about his incredible journey so far, and his determination to keep challenging himself